Re: Functions with COPY

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> I guess my example was lacking, I'm sure there are cases where the
> text->date casting will end up being wrong or some date style won't be
> accepted.  If the above was 'January 10th, 2003, October 1st, 2003,
> January 1st, 2003', for example.  Thinking back I think that might have
> been the situation I was thinking about (conflicting mdy and dmy) and
> would have made more sense as an example.

Then what are you after, some magically prescient input mode that will
guess the correct interpretation?
        regards, tom lane